Many of us have felt stress during this election. For some it can be called Election Stress Disorder. More on the disorder and how to cope with it here. According to the American Psychological Association, election stress crosses all generations:
The chart shows just how pervasive this election stress is. Time.com has compiled a list of 7 ways that will help alleviate election stress and I have added a few of my own.
- As much as possible, stay away from Facebook. Trump supporters are not taking prisoners. If you don’t support Trump ‘enough’ you’re done. Republicans on Facebook report daily on the loss of friendships over this election. It’s not worth it. Get off Facebook for the next two weeks.
- Stop watching or listening to news 24/7. Restrict the amount of time you watch, listen, or read the news
- When stress gets overwhelming, take three deep breaths. Deep breathing lowers stress.
- If you must discuss the election, make the it a meaningful discussion and walk away if you can’t debate without becoming angry.
- Try Prayer and/or meditation. Both work to lower stress and prayer has other benefits. When you get stressed, turn to God. He’ll help.
- Know when to stop discussions, prior to losing your temper and the chance of losing a friend.
- Send prayers for the other party too. They need guidance and love.
- Maintain your regular schedule, sleep, eat, and exercise well.
- Be comforted in knowing this will end in 14 days.
More on how to cope with this terrible election cycle, and how to cope when it finally ends, here.
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Meanwhile, “voter fraud” is a mainstay of the Trump campaign.
Trump Loyalists Planned Voter Intimidation Using Fake ID Badges, Fake Exit Polling
Vote Protectors,
the anti-voter-fraud group hosted by Donald Trump ally and political
dirty trickster Roger Stone, plans to send volunteers to monitor polling
places in nine cities with high minority populations on Election Day,
Stone said last week. Untrained poll-watchers have intimidated voters in
previous elections. But Vote Protectors is going further than its
predecessors.
Stone’s group created an official-looking ID badge for its
volunteers to wear, and its volunteers planned to videotape voters and
conduct fake “exit polls,” efforts that election experts say risks
intimidating and confusing voters. Or at least that’s what the group was
planning to do before The Huffington Post asked Stone about it on
Tuesday. The controversial Trump ally, long known for his bare-knuckled
political tactics, said that key proposals on his group’s websites were
there without his knowledge, and assured HuffPost that he would operate
within the confines of election law.
Stone had initially refused to explain just how Vote Protectors
planned to accomplish its goals. So on Monday, The Huffington Post
responded to the group’s request for additional volunteers to work as
“Exit Pollers and Citizen Journalists.”
* * *
For Danielle Lang, the deputy director of voting rights at the
nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, the Vote Protectors’ emphasis on
posting livestream video of voters to the internet is especially
disturbing. “It’s inherently intimidating and an invasion of privacy” to
videotape private citizens at the polls without their consent, Lang
told HuffPost. “When that’s being livestreamed to the internet, it
amplifies the potentially intimidating aspect of it, and violates a
sense of security and privacy people have a right to enjoy at the
polls.”
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vote-protectors-voter-intimidation_us_580e4e63e4b0a03911ee03bc
Watching this will reduce stress. I have no idea what this guy’s party affiliation is, but his humorous campaign made me feel whole again.
It’s not the end, this is just the beginning, a shot heard ’round the world.
BEST ANTIDOTE: Listen to the John Fredericks Show: Monday to Friday, 6AM – 10AM. You’ll feel better! John Fredericks
But it doesn’t end in 14 days. On November 9th or shortly thereafter the Electoral Boards will be conducting their canvas which requires attention. Then there’s the continuation of the Commonwealth races for next year. Then the Senate. It’s one of the great things about the Commonwealth, there’s always an election.
Whether we need it or not………
Virginia started this whole thing, we’d better keep practicing while we can.
Isn’t this why they invented alcohol?
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the maintream media skews polls to discourage Republican voters and has done it for years.
Ann Coulter warned in her book Slander in 2003 that the far left mainstream media outlets always use polls to push their agenda.
Polls can be skewed by selecting an unreasonable sample size, by asking lead up questions or by selecting more of a sample population on one side of an issue to achieve a desired result
A good example of the media trying to shape a vote occurred 36 years ago today.
In a Gallup poll released on October 26th in 1980, two weeks before the election, Jimmy Carter was leading Ronald Reagan 47 – 39.
Two weeks later Reagan won in such a landslide that Carter conceded before California was counted.
This year the mainstream media has already called the election for Hillary Clinton – the most corrupt politician in our history. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9f50eb0b2d5d9698877ea81130bf110c4a6c90ecedf6cff61d30402dd1fddc7d.png
Don’t be swayed by the media bias.
Go vote!
Yeah it figures Gen X would be the lowest stress at 45%.
Slackers.
They’re ‘chill’.